Editing Oileus (section)

== Family ==
Oileus's father was given as [[Hodoedocus]] (whom Oileus succeeded as King of Locris)<ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 2.640</ref> and his mother as [[Agrianome]] (daughter of [[Perseon]]), according to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]]'s ''Fabulae''.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14 14]</ref> Oileus is best known as the father of [[Ajax the Lesser]].<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.527&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=leus 2.527]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 3.10.8]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+3.19.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 3.19.12]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+3.19.13&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 13], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.26.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 10.26.3] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.31.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 10.31.2]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.31.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oileus 3]</ref> There is disagreement as to the name of Ajax's mother: Homer names [[Eriopis]] as the legal wife of Oileus,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+13.697&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=leus 13.697]</ref> but [[scholia]]sts cite other authors, some of whom agreed with Homer in considering Eriopis (or Eriope) the mother of Ajax, but others stated that the mother of Ajax by Oileus was [[Alcimache]], and yet others asserted that Alcimache was simply another name for Eriopis.<ref>Scholia ad Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.333 & 336</ref> [[John Tzetzes]] listed three alternate options: Eriopis,<ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Tzetzes]]|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=41, Prologue 43–44|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Alcimache, or [[Astyoche]] the daughter of [[Itylus]]. Oileus was also the father of [[Medon (mythology)|Medon]], who is usually regarded as illegitimate; Medon's mother was said to be a [[nymph]] named [[Rhene (mythology)|Rhene]],<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.727&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=leus 2.727]</ref> though some gave Alcimache as his mother.<ref>Scholia ad Homer, ''Iliad'' 13.694</ref> According to Hyginus, Rhene was the mother of Ajax as well.<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97]</ref>